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To: cosmicforce who wrote (127392)	12/18/2009 3:51:00 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 540852

It is also worth noting that the parties have evolved. Completely agree though the 30 years time frame may be too small for whatever end point you wish. I see the biggest source of the present Rep party as Gingrich's successful move against Michael to get control of the House Rep caucus. That took the Reps from being fundamentally policy oriented, to fundamentally power oriented. You could, of course, go back to Goldwater's defeat in 64, the growth of the further right from there and note that Gingrich was simply an evolving stage. I don't think that works. But it could be argued. As for the Dems, I think you could argue they were fundamentally not connected to lobbyists, at least not to the extent the Reps were, until after Reagan is elected. Sometime in that period, and I forget just which House member championed it, they began raising money from lobbyists in earnest. Once they had a taste for the forbidden fruit, it changed the party. It's still not as bad as the Reps but it's made for very tough sledding. The only solution I see, the repeat myself close to ad nauseum, is campaign finance reform. Publicly funded. With only the very smallest of donors; tightly regulated.

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